Investing For Impact: Catalysing An Emerging Industry

Investing For Impact: Catalysing An Emerging Industry

Thu, March 26, 2009; 09:00 - 10:30

Using profit-seeking investment to generate social and environmental good is moving from a periphery of activist investors to the core of mainstream financial institutions. Going far beyond the negative screens of ‘socially responsible investing’, this session will explore opportunities and trends among investors that actively seek to place capital in ways that can provide a scale of solution that purely philanthropic interventions cannot reach.